"Carolina Arts Unleashed" – Page 54 – A Blog by Tom Starland, Editor/Publisher of Carolina Arts

Help Teri Tynes Become Best Travel Blogger In The World

BloggingBest Travel Blogger in the World, Teri Tynes, Times Online UK, Walking Off the Big Apple

I’ve written about Teri Tynes’ blog, Walking Off The Big Apple – it’s a great blog about New York City and the art scene there. Tynes used to be the editor of the Free Times alternative newspaper in Columbia, SC, now she is in competition to be named the Best Travel Blogger in the World. ... Read More

Living in the Shadow of the Triangle

NC Visual ArtsAbra Fortune Chernik, Goathouse Refuge Gallery and Gardens, Lee Johnson, Leigh Brown, Pittsboro First Sundays, Pittsboro NC, Side Street Gallery, Siglinda Scarpa, The Goathouse Refuge

We don’t hear much from the visual art community in Pittsboro, NC. We used to get sent something about Pittsboro First Sundays and exhibits taking place at the Side Street Gallery there, but not much lately. Not much in a few years. Some folks, when they learn their info is not being included in the ... Read More

“Artista Vista 2009” in Columbia, SC, Time Well Spent

Columbia SC Visual ArtsArtista Vista, City Art Gallery, Gallery 80808, One Eared Cow Glass, Vista Studios

Even though the event takes place on a Thursday night, all the planets seemed to be in alignment – so Linda and I made a run for it. Columbia is a two hour drive from our front door and Artista Vista starts at 5pm. Linda had to start a three day work weekend of 12 ... Read More

Charleston County Public Library One of Top US Libraries

UncategorizedCharleston County Public Library, Library Journal

I love libraries. They have been a useful resource for so many things in my life and work. I don’t know what I’d do without them. The library provides books on CD for my long delivery travels, research info when working on my commentaries and instructional help from technical books – covering all sorts of ... Read More

Update on NEA Stimulus Monday for the Arts

Politics and the Arts, State of the Arts, Unbelievable but TrueNational Endowment For The Arts, NC Arts Council, NEA, SC Arts Commission

We’re finding out some things about the $50 million the National Endowment for the Arts got for economic stimulus recovery for the arts. Well, the non-profit part of the arts that is. Everyone else involved in the arts will be left out in the cold. And, it’s pretty cold out there in this economy. The ... Read More

A Glorious Spring Day in Seagrove, NC

About Seagrove Pottery, NC Visual ArtsBen Owen Pottery, Bulldog Pottery, Celebration of Spring in Seagrove, Dean and Martin Pottery, From the Ground Up Pottery, Johnston & Gentithes Art Pottery, Jugtown Pottery, NC Pottery Center, Seagrove Area Potters Association, Seagrove NC, Seagrove Potters, Whynot Pottery

It was April 18, 2009, and by 6am, Linda and I were in the car headed for Seagrove, NC, for the first day of the Celebration of Spring in Seagrovewhere over 40 potteries in the area would be greeting visitors who would be coming to see new works – many fresh from the potter’s kilns. ... Read More

Arts Whining – Not a Good Image for the Arts Community

Columbia SC Visual Arts, SC Arts701 Center for the Contemporary Arts, if ART Gallery, SC Arts Commission, Wim Roefs

While scanning the Internet for news about what’s going on in the Carolina visual art community I came across an interesting feature in Free Times a Columbia, SC, based publication (Issue #22.14 :: 04/08/2009 – 04/14/2009) entitled, Cutting the Arts – Midlands Groups Struggle Amid Declining Support, by Ron Aiken. As I read through the ... Read More

Roll with One Eared Cow Glass at Artista Vista 2009

Columbia SC Visual ArtsArtista Vista, Mark Woodham, One Eared Cow Glass, Ryan Crabtree, Tommy Lockart

Here is something to get you ready for this year’s Artista Vista 2009 – Columbia’s premier gallery crawl, held in the Congaree Vista area of Columbia, SC, on April 23 – 25, 2009. Take a look at the boys at One Eared Cow Glass doing their thing. Unlike art districts that offer art walks, art ... Read More

Catching Up On Old Request

SC ArtsSC Arts Commission; SC Arts Foundation; Linda C. Stern;

Over the last couple months and even going back further, I’ve mentioned the SC Arts Commission and the SC Arts Foundation – one or two times – or maybe it was every other post to the blog. I often mention the boards of these two organizations, not mentioning any individual – mostly as a group. ... Read More

McClatchy Newspapers Can’t Silence Jeffrey Day

SC Arts, What Ever Happened To...Carolina Culture, Jeffrey Day, McClatchy newspapers, The State

A few weeks ago I told you about the loss of arts coverage in SC when The State newspaper in Columbia, SC, a McClatchy newspaper, eliminated Jeffrey Day’s job, long time art critic and arts writer for The State. We’ve already seen the results of that move when Susie Surkamer, head of the SC Arts ... Read More